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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart. Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can't find it with all their machines and microcameras.

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Adam Rapp
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 15
Film Director
Novelist
Joliet
Illinois
Little
Deeper
Crystals
Heart
Deep
Chest
Inside
Chests
Imagine
Floating
Perfect
Eggs
Littles
Doctors
Soul
Machines
Find
Somewhere
Crystal

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